Press Releases

LIBERTY CORNER, N.J. (Feb. 7, 2018) - The USGA today announced its final exemption categories from sectional qualifying for the 2018 U.S. Senior Women’s Open Championship, which will be...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 3, 2018) – As part of its commitment to ensuring a healthy future for golf, the United States Golf Association (USGA) announced today the launch of Driving Golf Forward,...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (February 3, 2018) – Mark Newell of McLean, Va. has been elected to serve a one-year term as the 65th president of the United States Golf Association (USGA). The election took...

Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon, and thank you for joining us. I appreciate the opportunity to share some perspectives about the game and the USGA. Our game is centuries old, and after some...

The USGA unveiled the U.S. Senior Women’s Open Championship Trophy today at its Annual Meeting in Miami, Fla. The trophy will be given to the world’s best senior women’s golfer at the inaugural championship this July at Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Ill.

Good afternoon. I’d like to begin by saying thank you: § To Jim Hyler and the USGA Nominating Committee; § To my colleagues on the USGA Executive Committee, past and present; § To our CEO...

The 73rd U.S. Women’s Open Championship at Shoal Creek will team up with the Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau on regional ticketing and volunteer promotional efforts.

LIBERTY CORNER, N.J. (Jan. 30, 2018) – In recognition of outstanding contributions to the game of golf, the United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced its annual Service Awards...

LIBERTY CORNER, N.J. (Jan. 23, 2018) – Kinloch Golf Club in Manakin-Sabot, Va., has been selected by the USGA as the host site for the 40th U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship. Independence Golf Club,...

LIBERTY CORNER, N.J. (Jan. 10, 2018) – Fifty-nine regional golf associations have entered into a new relationship with the United States Golf Association to enhance the golfer experience at the...

AUGUSTA, Ga. – The USGA, Masters Tournament and the PGA of America have officially launched the sixth year of Drive, Chip and Putt by announcing the local and subregional schedule for the...

SentryWorld Golf Course in Stevens Point, Wis., has been selected by the USGA as the host site for the 71st U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship. A public, parkland course in central Wisconsin, SentryWorld will host its second USGA championship July 22-27, 2019.

FAR HILLS, N.J. (Dec. 13, 2017) – The United States Golf Association (USGA) today named Nathaniel Crosby, of Jupiter, Fla., as the captain of the USA Team for the 2019 Walker Cup Match at Royal...

Far Hills, N.J., USA and St Andrews, Scotland (December 11, 2017) – A working group led by the USGA and The R&A has unanimously agreed to adopt a new set of protocols for video review when...

FAR HILLS, N.J. (Dec. 5, 2017) – The United States Golf Association today announced that the 2019 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship will be relocated from Chambers Bay in University Place,...

The USGA has opened volunteer registration for the 2018 U.S. Senior Women’s Open Championship, which will be contested for the first time July 12-15 at Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Ill.

The USGA’s International Team Selection Committee has invited 12 players to participate in a practice session in advance of the 2018 Curtis Cup Match.

FAR HILLS, N.J. (November 9, 2017) – Thomas J. O’Toole Jr. and Stasia Collins will serve as USA captains for the 2018 World Amateur Team Championship and 2018 Women’s World Amateur Team...

The USGA today announced Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, Md., as the host site of the 120th U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship. Scheduled for Aug. 3-9, 2020, this will be the first USGA championship contested at Woodmont, which has hosted U.S. Open sectional qualifying for 30 of the last 31 years.

Mark Newell, of McLean, Va., has been nominated to serve a one-year term as the 65th president of the United States Golf Association (USGA) by the USGA Nominating Committee. He would replace Diana...

The USGA today announced Pebble Beach Golf Links as the site for the 2023 U.S. Women's Open and 2027 U.S. Open Championships, the 14th and 15th USGA championships in the course's storied history....

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Eighty junior golfers representing 30 U.S. states and one Canadian province have earned an invitation to Augusta National Golf Club to compete in the fifth annual Drive, Chip and...

The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced that the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open will increase the number of exemption categories from qualifying, effective with the 2018 championships.

The USGA today announced tee times for the first two rounds of the 2017 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship, Saturday (Oct. 7) and Sunday (Oct. 8), at 7,207-yard, par-70 Capital City Club-Crabapple, in Atlanta, Ga., and at 6,784-yard, par-71 Atlanta National Golf Club, in Milton, Ga.

The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced that the 31st U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship, originally slated for Oct. 7-12 at Quail Creek Country Club in Naples, Fla., has been relocated to Champions Golf Club in Houston, Texas.